Best apps for BlackBerry PlayBook

It’s exciting to own a BlackBerry PlayBook and install some wonderful apps on it. We have compiled a list of few of the best BlackBerry PlayBook apps available in the market and BlackBerry App World. The apps listed below aren’t exhaustive, but they will surely equip your PlayBook with some wonderful utilities.

Social Networking

Facebook for PlayBook is a neatly developed app with all social networking abilities that you have on Facebook website. You can read News Feed, view photos, check out places/pages, interact with your friends, and much more.

Productivity

Documents To Go is an office suite for your PlayBook. You can create, edit and delete Word, Powerpoint or Excel files. The premium edition can also handle PDF files. It comes inbuilt with a synchronization feature for desktops/laptops. It’s a must-have app for those who are constantly playing around with their office documents and email attachments on the go.

GeeReader is one of the simplest Google Reader client for PlayBook which highly optimized for touch screens. It’s clean and neat interface makes it popular among PlayBook users. You can login using your Google account and watch all your RSS feeds stream in every morning.

Translate any sentences, words or phrases in multiple languages by speaking or typing into it. It can also read and translate mobile messages (SMS) or emails into any specified language of your choice. It can really be helpful while driving a car.

Poynt is a market connectivity app by which you can search for businesses, retailers, people, restaurants, movies, gas prices (US only), events and weather information around you. It makes use of GPS based technology to navigate and create locations.

BlueBox is basically a Dropbox client with a dazzling new interface. With BlueBox, you take your PlayBook files management to the cloud. Audio, video, documents, etc can easily be uploaded/downloaded via the shared Dropbox account. It also give the ability to create a Dropbox account via BlueBox.

Gaming

Who doesn’t love racing high speed world’s fastest cars? Everyone does. NFS Undercover gives you a series of super fast cars and good tracks to chose from with high graphics and HDMI compatibility, i.e. you can even connect it to your TV and play.

Doodle Blast is an addictive physics puzzle game. The user has to solve the puzzle by guiding the marbles with drawing lines. The drawing ink is limited so you got to carefully chart your plan before jumping in.

Assembler is a game about balancing, orienting, and stacking shapes in order to get the green shapes in the proper zones. Includes many intellectually challenging levels which require good spatial awareness skills and clever thinking to solve. Assembler Mobile brings a whole new mechanic to the game on accelerometer equipped devices, gravity changing. Simply tilt your device to change the gravity on levels that support it.